People dying of Covid-19 is pretty god damn current and absolutely tragic.
Unless you’re doing a game about proper hand washing or something, just avoid it. The entire thought of using this event in a game is superfluous, inappropriate, and in very bad taste.
And anyone suggesting that “Don’t use Covid-19 in games” is not explicitly in the rules and that ethics are irrelevant, and that tEcNiCaLy a game can have it, stop being an edge-lord. “But gun games still exist!!1!” give me a break. Lets be professional here and treat an ongoing health issue with some respect.